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Human Factors for
Sustainability
Theoretical Perspectives and
Global Applications
Human Factors for
Sustainability
Theoretical Perspectives and
Global Applications
Edited by
Andrew Thatcher, Klaus J. Zink, and Klaus Fischer
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Title: Human factors for sustainability : theoretical perspectives and
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Description: Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical
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question of how human factors and ergonomics (HFE) might contribute to
solutions for the more sustainable development of our world. The
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agenda for sustainable development as well as with sustainability
research from other disciplines.The book aims to summarize and profile
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Contents
Preface.......................................................................................................................ix
Editors .......................................................................................................................xi
Contributors ...........................................................................................................xiii
Chapter 1 How Has HFE Responded to the Global Challenges of
Sustainability? ......................................................................................1
Andrew Thatcher, Klaus J. Zink, and Klaus Fischer
SECTION I Theoretical Basis for Human Factors
and Ergonomics: Sustainability
and Sustainable Development
Chapter 2 For a Sustainable World, What Should HFE Optimize? ....................35
Colin G. Drury and Peter A. Hancock
Chapter 3 A Future Ethical Stance for HFE toward Sustainability ....................51
Andrew Thatcher, Karen Lange-Morales, and Gabriel García-Acosta
Chapter 4 HFE and the Global Sustainable Development Goals .......................75
Claudio Marcelo Brunoro, Ivan Bolis, Bruno César Kawasaki,
Ruri Giannini, and Laerte Idal Sznelwar
SECTION II Methods and Application Areas
for Sustainable Work Systems
Chapter 5 Crowd Work, Outsourcing, and Sustainable Work Systems ..............99
Klaus J. Zink
Chapter 6 Beyond Product Life Cycles: An Introduction to Product
Sociotechnical Cycles (PstC) as an Alternative for HFE toward
Sustainability in Product Design and Development .........................123
Gabriel García-Acosta and Karen Lange-Morales
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Chapter 7 Current Social Life Cycle Assessment Practice: Getting
Through Initial Difficulties of the New Approach ...........................145
Marina Jentsch
Chapter 8 Identifying Human Factors and Ergonomics Issues in Green
Jobs: Facilitating Sustainable Green Jobs ........................................171
Margaret Hanson and Andrew Thatcher
Chapter 9 Achieving Sustainability through HFE and Organizational
Behavior and Change .......................................................................193
Andrew S. Imada and Samantha K. Imada
Chapter 10 Factors to Consider in the Application of the Sustainable
System-of-Systems Model for Human Factors and Ergonomics
Interventions .....................................................................................217
Andrew Thatcher and Paul H. P. Yeow
Chapter 11 Sustainability of Global Value Creation and Supply Chains ...........237
Klaus Fischer
Chapter 12 Ergoecological Criteria to Achieve Corporate Sustainability ..........259
Martha Helena Saravia-Pinilla, Carolina Daza-Beltrán, and
Lucas Rafael Ivorra-Peñafort
SECTION III Case Studies from around
the World on Sustainability
and Sustainable Work Systems
Chapter 13 Complex, Interdependent Sustainability Issues and the Potential
Role of Human Factors and Ergonomics in the Persian Gulf:
Improving Safety and Preparing for Climate Change Challenges ......291
Maryam Tabibzadeh and Najmedin Meshkati
Chapter 14 Past, Present, and Future of the Workforce at the Chilean
Forestry Sector from a Social and Ergonomics Perspective ............319
Felipe Meyer, Elias Apud, Gabriel Eweje, and David Tappin
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Chapter 15 Sustainable Development and Energy Systems
Design: Issues and Perspectives from a Francophone
Activity-Centered Approach ............................................................335
Julien Guibourdenche, Céline Poret, Germain Poizat,
Florence Motté, Yvon Haradji, Pascal Salembier, and Mariane Galbat
Chapter 16 Transport Systems in Industrially Developing Countries
(IDCs) – The Role of Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) .......365
Jessica Hutchings
Chapter 17 Safety Training Park in Northern Finland – A Multistakeholder
Approach to Improve Occupational Safety and Health ...................389
Arto Reiman, Tuula Räsänen, Louise Møller Pedersen, and
Seppo Väyrynen
Chapter 18 HFE Practice within Complex Teams: What We Bring...................405
Dave Moore, Clare Tedestedt George, and Jas Qadir
SECTION IV Reflections
Chapter 19 Concluding Remarks, the Outlook, and Future Research ................431
Klaus J. Zink, Andrew Thatcher, and Klaus Fischer
Index ......................................................................................................................439
Preface
More than 25 years ago (in 1992), the first “Earth Summit” placed the issue of sus-
tainable development on the global political agenda. As this famous UN Conference
in Rio de Janeiro was held at the time of the end of Cold War, it was driven by a
spirit of multilateralism and the hope that a certain dividend would help to solve
global sustainability problems and inequality through international cooperation.
In recent times, the rise of nationalism and military buildups has meant that the
enthusiastic global spirit seems to be a rather remote prospect. However, remark-
able progress has been achieved in the last few decades in important fields such as
the alleviation of poverty and hunger, child mortality reductions, access to primary
education and – when looking at environmental sustainability – with regard to pro-
tecting the ozone layer.
These achievements are encouraging, even though many sustainability challenges
have become even more pressing in the last few years. Since 2015, the world has
agreed on its third global framework for addressing sustainability and sustainable
development objectives. The recent Agenda 2030 is an improvement in respecting
the interdependencies between environmental, economic, and social aspects as well
as the shared responsibility of the Global “North” and “South” and is thus delivering
a comprehensive framework for designing the future of a globalized world. The 17
Sustainable Development Goals have consequently been taken up in strategies and
action plans at the country, community, and organizational levels worldwide.
When looking at the role of human factors and ergonomics (HFE) in this context,
our discipline recognized early on the importance of global sustainability entrenched
in human well-being. At the International Ergonomics Association Congress (1994)
succeeding Rio’s Earth Summit, Moray outlined the global challenges of sustainable
development to the HFE community in Toronto, Canada. Although the response of
the HFE community was initially quite slow, a multitude of initiatives and research
fields were launched. These initiatives led to new concepts such as ergoecology,
green ergonomics, supply chain ergonomics, and sustainable work systems design,
which help focus our attention on pressing and highly complex issues required for
future development. These concepts and their related instruments are – among oth-
ers – presented in this book.
In 2008, the International Ergonomics Association’s Technical Committee on
Human Factors for Sustainable Development (HFSD TC) was launched, offering
an overall umbrella body for the sustainability discourse in HFE. In its first decade,
this TC has become a platform of exchange and cooperation across the borders of
continents, disciplines, and research topics and has thus contributed to an emerging
new subdiscipline of HFE. This book picks up on this development and provides a
collection of theoretical approaches in sustainability research from the HFE domain,
its various existing and new areas for HFE application, and case study examples of
where HFE methods have made a significant difference. The discourse is thereby not
limited to supposed “classical” sustainability issues: recent technological and social
developments such as digitization and demographic changes are inseparably linked
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